Accurately and efficiently estimating the number of distinct values for some attribute(s) or sets of attributes in a data set is of critical importance to many database operation...
Location-based services have attracted the attention of important research in the field of mobile computing. Specifically, different mechanisms have been proposed to process loc...
The growing cost of tuning and managing computer systems is leading to out-sourcing of commercial services to hosting centers. These centers provision thousands of dense servers w...
Reliable delivery of 3D video contents to a wide set of users is expected to be the next big revolution in multimedia applications provided that it is possible to grant a certain ...
Separation of concerns is one of the overarching goals of exception handling in order to keep separate normal and exceptional behaviour of a software system. In the context of a s...
Ivo Augusto Bertoncello, Marcelo Oliveira Dias, Pa...